Thursday, March 26, 2009

Where The Wild Things Are

Everyone knows this story, right?If not, I would seriously see what you could do about getting your childhood back, because you've been ROBBED! It is arguably one of the GREATEST children's books ever written.

Well now, ladies and gents, I get to be excited for something. Granted, I get excited fairly easily (as many of you know). But I don't usually get this excited for movies.

Let me reiterate.

I.
Love.
This.
Book.

And now I'm being presented with this awesomeness:



Right?

October 16.

Mark your calendars.

And go wild.

That is all.

Monday, March 23, 2009

I win.

I convinced Catherine to make a 'couple's blog' for us. She's still getting used to it :)

You may read it here.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Revamped.

No, not the crappy B vampire movie. Yes, I've seen it. No, you shouldn't.

I'm talking about the blog. But of course, you've noticed by now (unless you're hip and reading this on a feed. Or having it dictated to you...). I almost reverted back to my good old standby, black. But I've decided to go with something different. I mean, yeah my last layout was white, too, but I mean different from my normal affinity for dark.

I'm trying to keep it cheery, y'know?

Anyhoo, that's it. I had more planned but I have to go read something. More tomorrow, promise.

I will, however, leave you with a gift, thanks to Chontel.

That is all.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Ready to hate me?

If so, click here.

I love you all!

That is all.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

That's what I said.

Y'know what? I'm currently on a grave shift. And I've decided it's time for some blogging.

I mean some nitty gritty, soul-searching, thought-provoking, gut-wrenching, unicorn-breeding, dragon-slaying, partridge-in-a-pear-tree-giving, coke-snorting, money-to-a-hobo-giving blogging.

I'm not sure what I was trying to do there...stuff just kept coming out.

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My little sister Sica got married on Saturday. Her husband is rad. And TALL. I noticed while standing in line at the reception that my sisters and I are inversely as tall as our spouses. I'm the tallest of the three of us (and I'm only 5'3") and have the shortest spouse (5'7"). Sica is tiny (4'10", I think) and her husband Jim is the tallest (6'a billion"). Liz and Tomas are somewhere in the middle... I just thought it was funny.

On the short/wedding topic: I almost started to cry during the ceremony. I mean, my babiest of sisters was getting married. I still see her as my baby sister. It's weird to think she's married. Anyway, as I was just about to cry, I looked over and saw my mom sitting in her chair and noticed something awesome. Her feet were dangling about 2 inches off the floor! I had to stifle a laugh. As I walked out afterward, I gave my mom a hug and said, "You have short legs."

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(I'm eating lemon heads...and they're amazing.)

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About a year after getting home from Iraq, thePatrick and I finally got the chance to record some songs and put them up on myspace for our friends to check out. Well, two years later (a couple weeks ago) I got a message from a production company saying they'd like to put one of our songs on a compilation. I was ecstatic. The only issue was the $165 fee. Luckily, I was able to coerce some friends into helping me out with donations and have raised $108 so far! My stepdad has offered to pay whatever difference remains if I don't have it all raised by the 13th. He wins.

Hopefully, this will be the start of my meteoric rise (haha) to stardom. Eventually, I hope to be to the point where I can demand that U2 open for me.

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I'm growing more and more fond of The Faint lately. I mean I freaking love them. A while back I posted about longboarding around campus with them cuddling with my eardrums. I've since come the the desicion that they are my favorite band to longboard to. I found it particularly amusing last semester when I bif'd it coming down the hill a wee bit too fast while listening to their song 'Take Me To The Hospital'. I'm pretty sure 'The Conductor' is my favorite by them.

Their bass-lines are really fun to play, too.

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I've been thinking about my major lately. Or rather, actually declaring one. I really want to do music composition. I know I've got it in me, I just need to learn the freaking fundamentals. For example, I can't read music. I play and learn by ear. I can read guitar tabs, but that's really about it. It has come to my attention that many beginning music classes expect students to already be able to read music. So guess what I get to work on this summer?

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I've still got Mike TV's phone number in my phone. That's freaking awesome to me. If I use it, would that make me a creepy fan-boy? Hmm...

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Last fall I randomly stumbled upon some guy's blog. Since discovering it (in September, perhaps?) I have read every daily post he's put up. I find it quite amusing. And interesting that I find the anecdotes of a complete stranger so amusing.

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I failed my New Year's resolution, horribly. I was going to practice writing songs. I was going to write one a week, no matter how goofy or dumb I thought it was. I got one done. And I don't even remember it.

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I said last week sometime that I was going to go private. And that Sunday was when it was going to happen. I changed my mind...for now. Those of you whose e-mails I have don't need to worry about giving them to me again should I decide to do it. Mostly the reason I'm not is because I'm really calm lately and don't so much feel like ranting.

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And with that, I'm really tired. So I'm going to stop being clever and close this thing out for tonight.

Later.

That is all.

Friday, March 6, 2009

I don't get it...

Help me out here...


How does the phrase 'meteoric rise' make any sense?




That meteor ain't rising out of the ocean there. It's crashing. Hard.

So if anything should be described as 'meteoric', might I suggest a failure?!?

EXAMPLES
blah blah...Obama's meteoric rise to become president...blah blah
--->MAKES NO SENSE
blah blah...the meteoric failure of Gigli...blah blah
--->Oh, I see. Because it was a terrible movie, and stuff...

That is all.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

I never really wanted to, but...

...I think I'm going to be going private. Everyone listed on my sidebar, you're in; I just need most of y'all's e-mails. Anyone else interested, throw me a comment.


I just know some people who read my blog, and I really don't mind that they do...I'd just prefer to say some things on here that I don't need to be read by everyone. This is my venting space. I can't rightly do that if I know whoever I'm ranting about is going to read it the next week.

That's not to say I'm burying it. This just isn't the proper way to convey frustrations to the frustrator. I mean really, that's like breaking up over myspace, and I left high school 6 years ago.


So yeah...sidebar peeps, leave me your e-mails. Peeps who read this that I don't know about, shoot me a comment.

I'm thinking this'll take effect...hmm...Sunday night (march 8).

That is all.